Suddenly - a ton of news for writers!
The 34th Annual Mississippi Valley Poetry Contest welcomes all poets to enter their competition this year, deadline 1 April 2007. Plenty of categories, including students and general adult. Learn more at the Midwest Writing Center.
Writing it Real is holding an essay contest. They are seeking creative non-fiction essays based on personal experience. Essays must be previously unpublished and can be up to ten pages in length, double-spaced. Deadline: 30 December 2006. Visit the site for more information. Read the rest of this entry »
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I haven’t seen much on the writing front lately that doesn’t seem somewhat questionable. With that said, I haven’t checked out two of the following three contests, so don’t blame me if they don’t pan out.
Writer’s Digest is offering its only competition exclusively for poets. Regardless of styleâ€â€?rhyming, free verse, haiku and moreâ€â€?if your poems are 32 lines or fewer, they want them all. Entry Deadline: Wednesday, 20 December 2006. For guidelines, entry fees, and other pertinent information, visit the Writer’s Digest site.
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Writers are more than welcome to share their coffee stories and poetry with us! The latest edition includes 31 little ditties from Randall D. Barfield about Carlos the Young Coffee Picker.
Other tidbits below might help you dream up some coffee literature as well. After all, truth is stranger than…
A PASSENGER on an Air France flight from Bordeaux to Paris is suing the airline after allegedly being poisoned by a cup of coffee containing drain cleaner. This story is a series of unfortunate events will lead to an operation that will remove part of the passenger’s stomach to reconstruct his oesophagus, an operation which carries a 5-8 per cent risk of death. Read more at The Scotsman.
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Middlebury College students staged a quiet, congenial 11th hour appeal to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters for aid in halting Monday’s scheduled tire burn in Ticonderoga by International Paper. The students, part of the self-proclaimed People for Less Pollution, targeted the Waterbury, Vermont, company which, in conjunction with International Paper, recently unveiled a corn-polymer-based eco-cup, produced exclusively through International Paper’s food service division in Ohio. In a formal statement released Thursday, Green Mountain Coffee Roasters said, given the complexity of the situation and public concerns, “we have asked IP to postpone and reconsider the test burn.” Read more at the Times Argus, Vermont News.
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Best Travel Writing is holding The Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards for Best Travel Writing contest, and the rules are way too complicated to repeat here. You pay $20 to enter the first story (something about 2000-3000 words, I think), and you could win $1000. Several categories. The only problem is that the deadline is looming - 12 November. So hurry…
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